Summary:
Obama had pen and a phone and abused the administrative rule-making process because Congress ceded a large part of the legislative process over time to the Executive, because Leviathan.
Trump uses a pen and a phone to undo.
Guess what happens when Dems retake the WH.
Obama had pen and a phone and abused the administrative rule-making process because Congress ceded a large part of the legislative process over time to the Executive, because Leviathan.
Trump uses a pen and a phone to undo.
Guess what happens when Dems retake the WH.
Core problem in that? We want the trains to run on time. Teaparty claimed to care about an originalist stance on separation of powers, but the minute they went for Trump, it was pure transactional power politics henceforth. So now doing exactly the same thing Obama did is MAGA.
Rule by decree, or anti-decree, is the same thing. Go right ahead and nuance the difference, but there is no difference.
The only conservatives worth a shit now are those who recognize that we need to undo the ceding to the Executive of quasi-legislative powers.
Meaning, we're fucked. Good and truly fucked. The beast is too big. The cowardice is too strong.
Meaning, we're fucked. Good and truly fucked. The beast is too big. The cowardice is too strong.
So-called conservatives are quivering in fear of a mean tweet from POTUS, which will set his gibbering hordes off on their asses.
This is how a representative democracy ends: not with a bang, but with whimpering preening on cable news shows.
This is how a representative democracy ends: not with a bang, but with whimpering preening on cable news shows.
When Bob Fucking Corker is your idea of someone with spine, it's either SMOD, or taking up golf.
Cruz? Supine ball-sucking. Rubio? God bless ya, Marco, but triangulation won't work. Etc.
Sasse is about as close as we're going to get to anyone really taking him on. And he is far too nice to do it convincingly. Tim Scott is trying to get a few things done by being as inoffensive as possible.
Republicans are going to rue the day they ever played this game.
Republicans are going to rue the day they ever played this game.
Same with Mike Lee. Wonderful guy, doesn't have the killer instinct. So the transactionalists win by default.
If Democrats weren't busy trying to fend of a Stalinist impulse from the Left of their base, things might be different. Right now, it's which set of grifters is in power. Much worse than normal politics, don't kid yourselves that it was always this way.
In the final analysis, at the end of the day, or whatever hoary cliche you prefer, this is all on you, Mr. & Mrs. Hardscrabble Pissed-Off America.
Enjoy the ride.
Enjoy the ride.
